It's the Coupe de la Ligue: Le Mans and Paris Saint Germain face off

Paris Saint Germain could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Ligue 1 game only three sleeps ago. That game, against Saint-Étienne, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Paris Saint Germain.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Paris Saint Germain have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 1-0-0 (win-draw-loss) from one match.

Le Mans form and stats

Le Mans have played 10 Ligue 2 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-1-5 (wins-draws-losses). 2W-1D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Coupe de la Ligue for Le Mans.

The Le Mans supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Orleans in Ligue 2 and win 3-2. In the game before, an away victory in the Coupe de France match versus Les Herbiers with a 2-1 scoreline.

There will be little rest for Le Mans after this match as they are travelling to Paris for a Ligue 2 game in only three days.

The Le Mans fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 10 matches. On the other hand, Le Mans have conceded 14 goals.

Paris Saint Germain form and stats

Last season their Coupe de la Ligue adventure ended in the quarter-finals.

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 7 wins, 0 draws and only 2 losses in the Ligue 1. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Le Mans. Paris Saint Germain have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.

Two travels in a row for Paris Saint Germain, whose manager T. Tuchel could celebrate last time after the Ligue 1 win against Saint-Étienne. That result followed a home victory 5-0 versus Galatasaray in the Champions League.

As mentioned above, Paris Saint Germain was the only team on the pitch versus Saint-Étienne in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Paris Saint Germain given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 19 matches with 15 wins as expected, 3 draws and 1 surprise home win. The favourites won 12 of these games by at least two goals.

A new game in only three days for Paris Saint Germain, the Ligue 1 home match versus Amiens SC. Busy days.

Paris Saint Germain have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 19 goals from 9 away matches. Paris Saint Germain are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 7 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 2 Le Mans victories, 2 draws and 6 Paris Saint Germain wins. 3 of these games ended with three goals or more, 7 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

K. Mbappé 9 goals

M. Icardi 8 goals

V. Créhin 6 goals

Le Mans missing players

Paris Saint Germain missing players